2013/05/01 by Doğan Gürpınar · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Turkey's Politics and Society #Islamic Studies and History #Elitism #Intelligentsia #Political science #Rhetoric #Elite #Statism #Intellectualism #Liberalism #Law #Political economy #Politics #Sociology #Philosophy #Theology
paper · doi:10.1080/00263206.2013.783822
openalex publication_date 2013/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
This article probes the transformation of Kemalism to a xenophobic nation-statism with a strong anti-western animus diluting its self-styled westernism and elitism in response to the rise of the reformist-Islamist ruling JDP and its patchy liberal rhetoric and pro-EU stance. The article points to the novel qualities of the Kemalism of the 2000s but also attests to its inherent anti-elitist, anti-liberal and anti-intellectual nature that reigned in the 1930s given that the Kemalist project in the inter-war period involved the denunciation of the Ottoman establishment with its elite and intelligentsia and its replacement with an intelligentsia of its own that is acquainted with anti-liberalism, anti-cosmopolitism and also anti-intellectualism.